WEBVTT - The Blah-Dee-Blah 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.360 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:18.400 Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.599 FEMA officials say they have already distributed three hundred and 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.840 forty four million dollars worth of assistance to victims of 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.959 Hurricane Helene in six states. FEMA has also shifted more 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:38.000 than seventeen million meals and nearly fourteen million liters of 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.720 water to the disaster area. As a result, FEMA is 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.760 plowing through its disaster relief budget and the Small Business 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.120 Administration could run out of money for low interest home 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.120 rebuilding loans by the end of the month. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.960 Well, we're glad we're talking to somebody who's on the 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.279 ground in those areas, because it's hard to tell from 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:00.480 national stories how hurricane relief is actually going talking about 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:05.720 the first big Hurricane Helene and specifically North Carolina, and. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.760 I think the attention being paid to what the federal 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.959 government is doing is fine and good, and they certainly 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.360 have a role, But as anybody who's lived through this 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.119 sort of thing knows, it's the state and then local 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:20.160 entities that provide a tremendous amount of the humanitarian relief 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.880 and the assistance when times are dark, which is why 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.160 we're helping to raise money for the good folks at 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.959 the United Way of Ashville and Buncom County, and their 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.520 president CEO, Dan Leroy, joins us. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:31.640 Now, Dan, how are you, sir. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.440 I'm doing all right. Thanks for having me today. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.960 Busier than heck, I'm sure. Yeah. How are things in 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:40.279 your area at this point? 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.480 Well, things are still pretty crazy, still pretty dire. You know, 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.840 this hurricane hit us so much harder. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.120 Than we ever could have imagined. 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.400 And I'm sure your listeners have seen all of the 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.400 images and it is just as bad as folks have 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:01.400 seen it. It has just wiped out in structure across 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:05.000 our region and certainly here in Buncom County, from the 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:11.120 smaller towns like Swananoa, Barnardsville, Black Mountain. We're just so 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.480 hard hit that in many cases, you know, whole neighborhoods 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.320 are gone and having to be rebuilt. And so the 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.440 good news is a lot of our infrastructure is starting 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.320 to come back. A lot of folks have power now, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:30.120 Dell service is pretty ubiquitous, which was not the case 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.000 even a week ago, and so that helps a lot 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:37.040 with communication. But in our county specifically, the biggest problem 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.799 that we have is water. The municipal water system was 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.880 basically wiped out, and we have what I would describe 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.800 as a heroic effort not just by our public Worse Department, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.160 but by you know, partners from across the Southeast that 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.480 have come into support and rebuilding this because it's so 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.359 critical for our business community, it's critical for our schools, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.839 and you know, you can't do anything without running water. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.000 So that's the biggest issue for us right now. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.079 So before we get into some of the relief stuff, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.880 Joe and I worked in North Carolina for a couple 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.919 of years, and I I was foot loose and fancy 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.600 free and single and childless. So I did a lot 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.360 of travel on North Carolina, spent a lot of time 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.640 in the Ashville area, really really enjoyed it. But did 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.840 was he even on your mind most of you around 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.000 there that this hurricane was going to be a big deal? 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.400 At what point did you realize holy crap? 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.880 Yeah, you know, I'll tell you. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.040 One of the things that we have thought about ourselves 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.480 and talked to other folks about. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.120 Ourselves here in western North Carolina. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.000 Is just how resilient this area is and and sort 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.920 of the kinds of natural disasters that were used to 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.520 thinking about, whether it's the you know, the big fires 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.000 that they have out west, or you know, the huge 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.560 hurricanes that you see on the coastlines, or even the 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.040 you know, the tornadoes that. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:57.080 You see in the Midwest. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.840 We've been pretty well insulated from all of that for 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.760 a long time. And so this storm was truly unique 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.800 in that we got thirteen inches of rain that you 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:14.160 know that two days before the hurricane even came this way. Wow, 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.400 in a single day, right, And so it was a 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:22.000 very unusual weather pattern that basically soaked every we had. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.280 We had flooding, you know, like you wouldn't see for 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.240 you know, in the last decade before the hurricane hit. 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.240 Oh, and so that was really what made it so unique. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.120 And so no, we were not I don't think anyone 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.560 could have imagined the level of impact here because it's 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.440 such an unusual weather. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.560 Event and then a quick one before we move on, 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.200 how long were we all without self service? So all 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.840 this happens, it wasn't even on your mind all of 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.080 a sudden, things are just devastated homes are gone and 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.559 roads are covered, and wondering how long were you without 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.479 self service? You couldn't even talk to anybody. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.840 Well, it's you know, to sort of answer your first 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:06.039 question from before, I think it was probably Tuesday that 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.920 the Tuesday before the hurricane hit on Friday morning, essentially 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.160 where folks were starting to kind of look around at 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.799 the radar and say, okay, this could be a big problem. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.760 And so, you know, and to just give you an idea, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:23.760 I was actually. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.600 At a conference in Salt Lake City, so I was 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.640 not on the ground. So I had information that nobody 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.159 in our community, and certainly none of my colleagues or 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.160 teammates or partners had because they couldn't talk to each 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:36.800 other really for. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:37.960 About two days. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.520 If you were a part of, you know, some kind 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.160 of emergency response operations, they were able to stand up 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.680 in different places, access to self service and Wi Fi 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.600 and those kinds of things. But for the first couple 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.360 of days, I couldn't even talk to my family who 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.479 was in town to make sure that the folks here 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.440 in our house and everything else was okay. So it 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.000 was pretty much like in the dark for most people 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.640 within the affected region for about forty eight hours. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.560 Wow, and then you're talking about the catastrophic damage to 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.000 the water treatment system. It could be weeks before there's 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.920 running water correct or even longer. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:13.360 Yeah. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.640 And it's not the treatment system, it's the distribution system, Okay. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.680 And so they have, like I said, they have been able. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:25.280 To get the main line inter reconnected, which is pretty incredible, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.120 but there's a lot of time that it's going to 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.600 take to actually work through the entire system. They say 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.600 that the linear feat of our water system here is 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.160 the equivalent of the distance between here and Miami and back. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.680 So you can imagine it's a lot of line that 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:42.760 needs to be cleared out. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.000 And so they aren't giving us estimates. But you know, 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:46.560 it's interesting. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.680 We do a lot of work in partnership with our schools, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.240 and you know, we we have schools that are drilling 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:57.000 wells right now in their ball field because they want 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.960 to make sure not just for this getting water back, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.560 but in the future because obviously it's everything. So we 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.840 don't have a clear estimate for when it could be back, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:06.880 but it's. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.599 Definitely in the order of weeks and not in newer 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:09.080 of days. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.240 So for what it's worth for folks, who haven't been there, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.320 you know. And I spent a week in Ashville slash 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.800 Waynesville this past July. I have family there, and I 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.120 love the area. It's not only beautiful geographically, but it's 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.760 just so interesting because you have, you know, conservative retirees 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.280 and kind of your traditional we've lived in the mountains 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.280 for generations conservatism. You've got tattooed and pierced waitresses and 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.480 artists and just the most amazing mix of people in 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.239 that area. And it's fun and funky, and it's very 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.680 very American, and it's just the devastation is astounding. So anyway, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.440 if folks listening get a chance, if you can spare 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.440 a couple of bucks or more, go to Armstrong you 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.760 getty dot com. The banner is you can't miss it. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.200 Donate what you can to help out to your fellow Americans, and. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.640 It's going directly to you. What can that money do 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.400 for you? If we can get our listeners to throw 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:00.640 a couple of bucks your way and you get a 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.000 pile of money, what can you do with that short term? 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:04.520 Sure thing? 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.840 Yeah, And I just want to echo what you just 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.720 said in terms of the incredible diversity of our communities here, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.880 and what's been so beautiful to watch is the way 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.440 that you know, those barriers have been broken down and 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:20.520 we have people just working together, Neighbors helping neighbors, the organizations, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.840 community organizations helping you know, whoever's out there in their 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.880 community without regard to any of that affiliation. So that's 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:32.400 been beautiful. Our focus really is right now. We are 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.080 recruiting thousands of volunteers and working with our community organization 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.720 partners to identify where are the volunteers most needed and 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.920 being able to connect those volunteers to those organizations doing 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.199 the work on the ground. We also have created a 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:52.520 disaster relief fund which will go to these community organizations 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:58.720 who are directly impacted by the hurricane itself and the 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.200 other thing that we're doing that this would support us 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.160 that we're working really closely with our partners at the 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.319 City of Asheville and Buncott County to help coordinate the 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.880 thousands of tons of supplies that are coming into our 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.040 region through these donations and to make sure that they 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.319 are have a safe place to go to be sorted, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.080 and then to get out the door to our community 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.319 partners who are most proximate to the neighborhoods and the 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.320 folks that were most impacted by the storm. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.319 Dan Leroy of the United Way of Ashville, Buncome County, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.360 you guys are doing what is so sorely needed when 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.640 it's most needed, and you're all heroes. Keep at it. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.360 We'll see what we can raise for y'all and good luck. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:40.040 We're thinking of you. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.719 Well, thank you for shinning a spotlight on this. It's 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.520 going to be a need for a really long time, 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.280 so all the support that we can get from your 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.880 listeners is very much appreciated. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.839 Excellent point, you got it. Thanks Dan, great to talk 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:52.360 to you. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.600 Yeah, that's going to be a problem for a while obviously, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.720 and they'll run out of money quick if they don't 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.560 have a big parliament. And if you're the sort of 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:05.920 person listening to the show, you probably believe in local, small, 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.760 over giant far away, and this is a way to 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.120 get money, like to the source or where they're actually 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.440 you know, the people getting the money or their families 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.280 are dealing with this as opposed to bureaucrats somewhere far 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.360 away who lives are comfortable and they don't really care 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.200 right exactly. This goes directly to the need, and the 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:33.200 number of news pieces I've seen on how many people's 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:40.000 insurance doesn't cover this for all kinds of different complicated reasons, like, well, 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.079 you had flood insurance, but flood insurance caused by a 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.000 river rising, not by a hurricane, so sorry, it doesn't count, 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.880 or you just all kinds of different caveats. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.600 Oh right, and then you got to get into the lawyers. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.560 Well it rained thirteen inches two days before. Well we 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.640 think it was the hurricane. So it's a nightmare. But 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.120 before you even get there, the roads are gone. 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Also on the topic of the campaign, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.040 but slightly different, Kamala Harris is doing her media blitz 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.160 this week, which accornered a lot of my favorite pundits 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.760 who talk to people behind the scenes, including Democrats. They're 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.439 worried that she's doing all softball friendly interviews. Still playing 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.720 it safe and making no news's in. She's either tied 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.560 or behind, and you gotta be making some news. You 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.040 gotta be on offense. You got to be moving the 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:48.800 ball down the field. Just getting out of an interview 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.559 without screwing up is not going. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.600 To do it. I'd argue, she's not even doing that. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.960 She's missing the softballs. She's with him anyway. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.520 Howard Stern, which used to be a scary place for 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.800 anybody to go to get interviewed because he was all 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.320 about making news by being naughty, gave her a heck 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.800 of a softball interview the other day. I mean, just 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.960 as obsequious and fawning as you could possibly get. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:15.320 Great. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.960 Guttfeld was talking about that on his show on Fox 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.720 the other night, and here's how that went. I mean, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:21.840 talk about a transition. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.880 On Tuesday, he conducted an interview with Kamala Harris that 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.200 was so simpering and feminine. I got my period while 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:34.400 listening to it. You should hear what keeps him up 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:34.800 at night. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.600 This is what keeps me up night. I don't understand how, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.880 my fellow Americans, I don't even understand how this election 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.560 is close. Yes, I'm voting for you, but I would 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.680 also vote for that wall over there. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.680 Well, he's half right. We do need a wall. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.000 You had to keep out gang members, Fendyl dealers, human traffickers, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.440 and Anna and Navarro. Stern has become such a whissified 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.640 sick of a fan. He doesn't realize that telling Kamala that 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.520 he votes for a wall is telling her that he 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:02.840 knows she's as dumb as. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.400 One not to mention. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:13.120 Trump is the wall candidate, not cackles McNee pads. Oh, 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.760 used to throw boloney slices at stripper's butt with accuracy, 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:23.000 I might add, cackles McNee pads. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.880 Oh, that's kind of rough. I like these sipprings so 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.680 much estrogen I got my period. Oh my god. Anyway, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.080 he goes on, here's Stern. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.000 On anyone daring to poke a little fun at Kamala. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.640 Even when I watched them on Saturday Night Live with 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.040 the where they have Maya Rudolph playing you, I hate it. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.760 I don't want you being made fun of. Oh my god, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.480 it's too much at stake. I believe the entire future 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.040 of this country right now, I mean as America, Land 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.360 of the Free, Home of the brave. I think it's 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:54.560 literally on the line. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.440 So a guy who's supposed to be funny for a 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.120 living now claims her candidacy. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:15:59.880 Is too important to joke about. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.240 This is the guy who once joked, right after the 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.800 column by massacre that the killers should have raped the 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.320 students before killing them. Not that I like that, Stern, 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.600 But this pendulum swing from saying the most tasteless thing 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.080 in the universe to putting your balls in a tic 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.080 tac container, you gotta wonder. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:17.800 What's going on here. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.160 It's striking that the king of the most misogynistic humor 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:27.560 ever now turns into a breathless over a progressive, hopelessly 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:28.680 shallow candidate. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.960 How about freaking Howard Stern of all people saying it 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.160 really bothers me when they make jokes about you. They 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.880 shouldn't do that. It's too important. You don't want jokes 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:49.800 about politicians. Wow, the worshipfulness of it. Wow, humor, humor 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.840 is off limits for politicians on my side. From Howard 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.400 Stern who used to think obviously, as you just heard there, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.080 nothing was out of bounds for humor. Nothing right, right, 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.720 It's an interesting aspect of Trump derangement syndrome that you 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:11.160 get how would I phrase this? You get cipher. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.480 That's the kind of fancy word idiot worshipfulness syndrome. If 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:21.040 something is not or not Trump, I must love it. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.600 If it is against Trump, I love it, which explains 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.120 keeping the kids out of school and the plastic screen 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.560 at the seven eleven, and anything that defies Trump, I 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:31.520 love automatically. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:32.920 I just I love it. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.240 She's an idiot, she has no beliefs, but she's not Trump, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:38.560 so I love her. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:39.320 Well. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.040 A gut film made a good point. Stern saying I'd 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.439 vote for that wall over there is not exactly a 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.560 ringing endorsement. It's a you could be anybody and I 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.800 would vote for you, right exactly, Yeah, you could. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.280 You could be I don't know, talentless, have no principles, 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.639 a half wit word salad spout, chippering moron, and I 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:02.719 would still vote for you. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.000 Wow. I hope I never become that person. I watched 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.320 Maya Rudolph and I just think they shouldn't be joking 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:08.640 about this. It's too serious. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:14.960 Wowis So there's a couple of low points in my life. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.399 I'm not I'm passing a line, and I'm gonna have 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.879 a grand slam. The grand slams are the key I 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.800 feel like at my theater checking the AA there or 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.280 an institute of some sort, because this is crap. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.639 It's full of crap. This is crap. It's full of crap. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.119 There's an unhappy Philly fan by being knocked out by 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.680 the Mets, who are moving on to the Championship Series 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.080 against either the Dodgers or the Padres. Will find that 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.560 out later today. She says the loss was worse than 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:46.200 her dog time. Wow, well the dog was old. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.399 The Phillies were supposed to go on exactly anyway, and 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.199 they Yeah, I'm a Royals fan. So the Yankees beat 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.159 the Royals last night, and they're gonna be She got 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.879 the Yankees and the Mets both in the Championship Series 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.840 kill me in terms of national media coverage. Hmm, yeah, 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.919 that will be profoundly annoying. On the other coast, I 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.879 was explaining to a friend of mine from Elseware about 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.719 why California is so screwed up, and it's politically speaking, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:17.439 and it's it's primarily because the Democratic Party has entered 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:22.000 into this unwholly corrupt marriage with all of the public 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:26.520 employee unions, and the government serves only to do the 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.280 bidding of the unions and they throw the people a 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.160 bone now and again just to to you know, cover 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:39.120 up the scam. But the unions nominate the politicians who 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.880 get elected with the votes and contributions of the unions, 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.720 and then the politicians who are former union officials then 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.480 give the unions anything they want until they're turned out, 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.720 and then a new union guy takes the government post. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.840 And my great fear, because I've always been an optimist 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:01.119 about the United States and our people and our system 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.680 is that. And you know, our old friend Tom McClintock, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.200 the Conservative rep from California, always said, you know, we've 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.040 we've run into all sorts of problems in this country, 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.440 and what's great about it will fix them. My problem 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.960 is this that now they have enough bulk of the 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:20.480 union two way straight thing, the feedback loop, whatever you 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.160 want to call it, the population at large, unless they 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.000 get like crazy fired up, don't really have the numbers 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.840 to turn out well, at least in terms of the 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.560 usual turnout numbers. That just not enough regular people who 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:40.320 just want a healthy, functioning government turnout. So election after 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.879 election goes to the union owned Democratic Party anyway, that's a. 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:49.119 That's definitely the government you deserve, I suppose. 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.119 Although they're they're smart people, I mean, they're utterly corrupt, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.760 and they're they're treasonous to me, they are betraying their 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:59.000 their most sacred vowels. But they are smart, and so 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.840 they limit the tax paying pool as much as they can. 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.280 So the people who really really care that their money 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.320 is being squandered and given away in this unholy marriage, 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:10.600 they are way too few in number to win an election. 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.640